General Assembly Resolutions
Since the rise of the World Assembly from the ashes of its predecessor, the Bureaucracy That Cannot Be Named, WA member nations have worked tirelessly to improve the standard of the world. That, or tried to force other nations to be more like them. But that's just semantics.
Below is every World Assembly resolution ever passed.
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General Assembly Resolution # 681
Non-compete clauses restraints
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
The World Assembly (WA),
Noting extant resolutions to protect the rights of workers;
Dismayed by clauses in employment contracts that impede workers from joining another employer or starting a business that competes with their previous employer;
Concerned by the impact of such clauses on (i) improving the remuneration of employees, (ii) impeding employers from hiring qualified workers, and (iii) hindering the pursuit of entrepreneurship, among other issues;
Hereby defines:
Contract to mean an employment contract between an employer and an employee, whether written or otherwise;
Employee(s) to mean all formal and informal employees including temporary workers, interns, and apprentices, whether paid or unpaid;
Employer to mean anyone (or any entity) who enters into a contract to employ the employee;
IAO to mean the WA Independent Adjudicative Office;
Hereby defines a non-compete clause to mean any terms in a contract that:
hinders an employee from seeking or accepting roles with another employer; and/or
impedes a departing employee's ability to operate a business that competes with their previous employer; such as (merely as examples of the aforesaid acts of hinderance or impediment):
a very broadly defined non-disclosure clause for employees without access to sensitive commercial data or genuine trade secrets and merely serving to prevent them from using their skills and non-proprietary knowledge to improve their employment prospects;
a training contract requiring reimbursement of expenses exceeding the actual training costs incurred by the employer;
a contract that requires liquidating damages to be paid merely for the act of leaving an employer;
Hereby requires, as soon as reasonably practicable upon the passing of this resolution, that a non-compete clause as defined in clause 2 shall be deemed to have been severed from a contract and declared null and void;
Hereby prohibits an employer from restricting an employee from resigning and taking employment elsewhere or starting a business, nor subsequently claim for loss of business from the said employee, if either:
the employee has given due notice to the employer of the intent to leave the employer according to the terms of the contract; or
a valuable monetary payment, as determined by the laws of the relevant WA state, has been made by the employee to the employer to compensate for an early departure by the employee;
Hereby permits:
A contract with its terms severed or amended due to this resolution to be subject to a claim of unjust enrichment by any party to such a contract, with such claims limited to no more than the amount of any payments already made by an employer for the purpose of enticing the employee to consent to the terms of the contract severed or amended;
A non-compete clause imposed by the national (or sub-national) government(s) of a WA state on the grounds of national security, if the employee is aware of, and voluntarily accepts, such requirements before starting employment;
Hereby clarifies that this resolution does not apply to current or previous employee(s) with a financial interest in the employer itself, if such employee(s) voluntarily agree to non-compete restraints in return for selling their interest(s) in the said employer for valuable consideration;
Hereby clarifies that, in case of disputes:
The burden of proof shall be on the employer to any claims made by the employer against an employee at a level no less than a preponderance of evidence basis;
In case of disputes, jurisdiction shall be asserted in the following order:
The WA state stated in the contract as having jurisdiction, if specified;
The WA state where the employer is resident or duly established;
The WA state where the employee primarily work(ed);
In case of conflicts on or between jurisdictions, the IAO shall adjudicate as a matter of law and not as fact.
Co-authors: Cretox state, Imperium Anglorum, Separatist Peoples
Passed: |
For: | 8,415 | 70.6% |
Against: | 3,509 | 29.4% |
General Assembly Resolution # 682
Repeal: “Protection of Airspace”
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
General Assembly Resolution #464 “Protection of Airspace” (Category: Regulation; Area of Effect: Transportation) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Recognising that while Article 2a of GA#464 protects each member state's control "over their territorial airspace with regards to the movement of aircraft," it excludes "any World Assembly regulations regarding civilian aircraft protections" regardless of when those regulations may have been made,
Noting that while this exclusion was likely a good-faith attempt to prevent the target resolution from overriding GA#342 "Civilian Aircraft Accord," it does not prevent any future WA regulation of civilian aircraft that it would not be allowed to make in the target's absence, making it useless in these regards,
Rather confuzzled at Article 2b's declaration that "[a]ll aircraft registered under International Transport Safety Committee (ITSC) regulations shall have the right to fly in international airspace," even though no resolution has established a process by which an aircraft may be "registered" with the ITSC and GA#34 "International Transport Safety" already requires nearly all aircraft that uses international aerospace to follow ITSC standards, and
Hopeful that future resolutions seeking to protect national control of territorial aerospace will do so properly and robustly, rather than simply talk up the need for solutions that do not seriously materialise...
The General Assembly hereby repeals GA#464 "Protection of Airspace."
Passed: |
For: | 8,376 | 76.0% |
Against: | 2,647 | 24.0% |
General Assembly Resolution # 683
End Blood Sports
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.
Aware that, with the loss of GA#498 "Ban on Forced Blood Sports," the World Assembly is once more at a loss on how to address the scourge of blood sports involving animals, and
Convinced that a renewed approach to blood sports will help reinforce its reputation as a truly international guardian of animal welfare...
The General Assembly hereby:
defines "blood sports" as any competitive activity not regulated by prior and standing WA law which aims towards the infliction of severe injury or death upon at least one of the sapients or non-sapients taking part,
forbids blood sports, except where all those taking part are sapients who have given their free and informed consent to taking part,
requires that no sapient be held in captivity without their consent for the purpose of any blood sport, regardless of when such captivity commenced,
demands that no person transport, sell, or purchase any sapient or non-sapient to, in or from a member state, where such action is aimed at making it participate in those blood sports in any circumstances where Article b forbids them from taking place, and
further requires that all non-sapients who are held in captivity for blood sport purposes be:
kept in conditions where their basic needs are fulfilled before any of Articles e(ii-iv) are triggered, and either
released as soon as possible in a manner that allows for them to live in their natural environment independently and without destroying it,
released as soon as possible into an enclosed environment (such as a zoo) where they will be treated with the appropriate dignity, but only if following Article e(ii) is impossible within their lifetime, or
euthanised with minimal possible force, but only as a last resort if following Articles e(ii) or e(iii) is impossible within their lifetime.
Passed: | |
For: | 6,895 | 53.0% |
Against: | 6,103 | 47.0% |
General Assembly Resolution # 684
Challenging Sexually Exploitative Recordings
A resolution to restrict civil freedoms in the interest of moral decency.
Believing that everybody has a right to feel safe in their person, whether in public or in private,
Recognising, however, that tactics such as distributing revenge porn (the distribution of humilating and sexually explicit recordings of a person without their consent), upskirting and downblousing (two distinct acts in which sensitive parts of a person's body are similarly recorded for the sexual pleasure of strangers) are becoming more prominent in daily life, and
Convinced that these tactics violate the dignity of persons and should therefore be curtailed...
The General Assembly hereby:
defines "sexually exploitative recordings" as recordings of any person which exhibit that person in a sexual manner, are made or otherwise distributed without that person's consent, and are made with the intention that any other person should view them for their own sexual pleasure or to humiliate that person, and
requires all members to outlaw the making of, wilful distribution of, and threats to distribute sexually exploitative recordings to the fullest extent permitted under prior and standing international law, except where their distribution occurs in a judicial or policing context and is necessary to help convict a person of an offence defined in this Article.
Passed: | |
For: | 8,260 | 67.0% |
Against: | 4,070 | 33.0% |
General Assembly Resolution # 685
Countering Agroterrorism
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.
The World Assembly,
Conscious of the risks posed to sapient life by the deliberate targeting of food supplies for military or political purposes;
Reminding itself of prior resolutions governing the laws of war and the suppression of terrorism; and
Reaffirming its belief that war ought to be waged in a manner which avoids unnecessary civilian casualties,
Hereby enacts as follows:
General prohibition.
No person or member nation may intentionally:disseminate any contagious disease among crops or livestock in a manner which:
creates a substantial risk of death to one or more other persons; or
deprives, or creates a substantial risk of depriving, any population or substantial section of the population of a source of food relied upon by that population;
introduce any non-sapient invasive species to a region:
with intent to cause major destruction to the natural ecosystem of that or another region;
in a manner which creates a substantial risk of death to one or more other persons resulting from the characteristics of that species; or
in a manner which deprives, or creates a substantial risk of depriving, any population or substantial section of the population of a source of food relied upon by that population,
except that this subsection shall not apply to conduct performed by a member nation in respect of an ecosystem located wholly within another nation;
damage or destroy facilities used for the purpose of producing, processing, or shipping food to a civilian population, except where such a facility is being used as a civilian shield in violation of international law;
threaten to do any act described in subsections (a) through (c), where it appears that the person or nation making such a threat is willing and able to carry it out;
attempt or conspire to do any act described in subsections (a) through (d).
Exceptions.
Section 1 does not apply to any good-faith scientific experiment, provided that the person or nation conducting such experiment:informs all communities affected, or reasonably expected to be affected, by such experiment, of the nature thereof and of the measures taken to minimize risks;
takes all reasonable precautions to ensure that, even if the experiment goes wrong to a significant degree, no community will suffer a substantial loss of food; and
permits outside intervention in the case of an unforeseen error or outcome.
Enforcement.
When a member nation discovers that one or more persons subject to its jurisdiction is violating or intends to violate section 1, it shall with appropriate haste:inform the World Health Authority and every other nation (including territorial subdivisions) affected or likely to be affected; and
take all reasonably necessary action against such person or persons.
Ensuring food security.
The World Health Authority shall:work with member nations to identify ways in which acts prohibited under section 1 can adversely affect food supplies;
create and update as needed a program for the purposes of:
minimizing the risks of such acts to food supplies;
ensuring that, in the case of any such act being carried out, member nation populations will not suffer losses of food; and
assisting in the efficient movement of food between member nations; and
when informed under section 3(a), provide specific assistance to the nation or nations affected, as needed, to minimize the risks posed to sapient life and to the environment.
Passed: |
For: | 8,832 | 72.1% |
Against: | 3,412 | 27.9% |